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Wild life

Wild life

13 June 2013

1:00 PM

13 June 2013

1:00 PM

Il Pinguaan Springs

When I first saw the Pinguaan Springs they were small, fetid bogs set about with papyrus, the haunt of mercury-coloured frogs and dragonflies. I wondered why they were regarded as so important that you could find them on any half-decent map of Kenya. Without water, the farm we were building could never stir into life.

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